Former Deputy Prime Minister, fierce opponent of Vladimir Putin, and one time chairman of the State Romanov Commission has been reported killed in a Moscow street near the Kremlin ... shot four times in the back by a drive-by assassin...

I know there are more hellish countries on earth than Russia , with brutal leaders, but really... And to think , just a year ago, Putin 's Russia was the focus of world attention, if not admiration, at the Winter Olympics in Sochi. It's so depressing. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.